Feeling such a heavy heart with everything going on in our country right now.  I woke up this morning, as perhaps many did, feeling quite helpless. I see so many posts on my Facebook and Instagram of stitching...because stitchers are my people and my community and, in a lot of ways, a deeply important part... Continue Reading →

Three years ago today, on May 19th, I launched my WorksByABC design business!  On this date, I officially made my Etsy store "live" and published a Flosstube video sharing my new adventure as a needlework designer.  I remember being nervous and wondering if anyone would buy any of my patterns.  Whether anyone out there would... Continue Reading →

Back in March, one of my Market releases was this, titled Landscape: I wrote about it here .  Recently, I was contacted by a stitcher who had purchased the pattern and was stitching it using the Gentle Arts threads that I had used.  She said that she had run out of one (Sugarplum, which is the... Continue Reading →